Eleven
I stood in the spot where Carly had vanished, surrounded by empty streets. Not a soul moved around me. The sky was pitch black and from within that eerie darkness a presence loomed. One I’d encountered before. The blackness resolved into Taggart dressed in a black suit, complete with skinny tie. The nauseating scent of his magic wafted from him and closed in on me.
“You’re not going to find her,” he said, that smarmy grin on his angular face.
“I’m pretty sure you don’t get to have an opinion,” I retorted.
He laughed throwing his head back in true villain fashion. “You don’t think you won, do you? You only delayed us. But you’re never going to stop us. We will just keep coming after you. After the children you claim to protect.” Taggart grabbed the front of my shirt and slammed o
